Today, city services have ground to a halt in celebration of Emancipation Day. If finally correcting a longstanding evil in Washington D.C. with which he and most other American leaders had remained complicit can be considered noble, Abe Lincoln bagged when he signed the D.C. Emancipation Act.
But the act also provided [...]
Today, the District of Columbia is observing D.C. Emancipation Day, the day in 1862 that President Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act, ending slavery in the nation’s capital.
Signed on April 16, 1862, the act not only freed enslaved Washingtonians nearly nine months before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, but it paid former "owners" who [...]
For once, city workers can smirk
Today, they alone don't have work
With boozing extended
Life's even more splendid!
There's one word for them and it's: jerk.
Once freed from their desk or a meeting
Perhaps D.C. lackeys are tweeting
Now saved for posterity
All your hilarity
Twitter. No longer so fleeting…
The Summit is now in the past
Commutes are no longer harassed
One lesson to [...]
Welcome to the end of the week. If the fact that it's Friday isn't reason enough, excuses abound to get plastered today: It's Emancipation Day! And Day-After-Tax-Day!
Wait, you ask: What's Emancipation Day? Today in 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Compensated Emancipation Act, a precursor to the Emancipation Proclamation that freed roughly 3,100 slaves in D.C. [...]
A slightly less groggy LL is taking yet another look at the FY2010 budget proposed by the D.C. Council. Another sizable new item he initially missed: Looks like Emancipation Day is back in full.
Originally proposed under Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's budget plan to move from a full public holiday to an optional "private" holiday, the [...]
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty is quietly moving to kill a perk enjoyed by D.C. employees, if not by D.C. residents.
That would be a paid day off for Emancipation Day, which falls on April 16. The day has been treated as public holiday since 2005, though in 2005 and 2006 it fell during weekends. The past [...]
